Continuous intuitionistic fuzzy ordered weighted distance measure and its application to group decision making

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 75-99

  Zhou, Ligang ^a,b   Jin, Feifei ^a   Chen, Huayou ^a   Liu, Jinpei ^a  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

C IFOWD measure; distance measure; group decision making; OWA operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955631040     PISSN: 20294913     EISSN: 20294921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/20294913.2014.984254     Document Type: Article

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